Player Data Export (cheating research) - why are events obfuscated?

Question

question

Eric Adams asked Jan 5, '24

Player Data Export (cheating research) - why are events obfuscated?

Hi all, for our games, we are trying to find out what ingame actions trigger a higher that expected currency payout. We are seeing some players trigger our cheating alert for currency earn in a specific time period.

However, the data explorer and the exported player data does not give us specific game information (game id, game mode, game action, etc). Example: Game X - won 100 coins in Quest - playing daily challenge.

All we see is: "EventId": "7852c73c58a64711a4f54ce6b7354cee", "SourceType": "BackEnd",

How do we get the exact event information?

Player Data

10 |1200

Attachments: Up to 2 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 512.0 KiB each and 1.0 MiB total.

Answer 1 · 2024-01-05T09:58:24Z

Neils Shi answered Jan 5, '24

If you want to check the game information (game mode, game action, etc) of events in data explorer, you might need to implement custom event tracking within your game’s code and record these specific actions. You can use the WritePlayerEvent API call to post a custom event and record how much money the player has earned by playing which game mode. For more info, you can refer to Generating PlayStream events - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn.

2

10 |1200

Attachments: Up to 2 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 512.0 KiB each and 1.0 MiB total.

Eric Adams commented · Jan 08 at 03:45 AM

Thanks @Neils Shi - just to confirm, playfab does not automatically provide this and it must be custom coded to provide details?

-1 ·

Neils Shi Eric Adams commented · Jan 09 at 09:58 AM

Yes, you need to implement custom event so that you can track the details of specific game actions.

-1 ·

question